M 5.4 in El Salvador on 13 Dec 2013 04:45 UTC

Event summary

This earthquake can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude and the affected population and their vulnerability.

GDACS ID EQ 1020058
Earthquake Magnitude: 5.4M
Depth: 64.06 Km
Lat/Lon: 13.13 , -89.12
Event Date: 13 Dec 2013 04:45 UTC
12 Dec 2013 22:45 Local
Exposed Population:
4838932 people within 100km
Inserted at: 13 Dec 2013 05:08 UTC

GDACS Score

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  Earthquake GDACS score
NEIC 0.5 0.5
Scaled population (vector) n.a  
  C1 earthquake n.a  
  C2 earthquake n.a  
  Country Vulnerability n.a  
  INFORM_normalised n.a  
Maximum expected impact using different data sources.
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Estimated casualties (PAGER)

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Exposed population

Data, images, links, services and documents

For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (41), (3), NEIC (2), OCHA (1), INGV (1), DesInventar (1), WMO (1), INFORM (2), USGS (2),